Word: hellishly
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...final years were hellish punishment for earlier indulgences. "I do not like reading my old poems," he wrote one admirer, "because I am not working on new poems." Yet reading his old poems before bedazzled crowds was what he was paid handsomely to do. His letters supply no evidence that he seriously contemplated suicide. But they portray, powerfully, a man trapping himself in a quandary from which there seemed to be no earthly escape. His poetry survives. The impractical young dreamer from Wales may have been wrong about almost everything but his immortality...
...other side of the field are the hellish nicknames: the Sun Devils (Arizona State), the Blue Devils (Duke), the Delta Devils (Mississippi Valley State) and the Demons (Northwestern State...
...York City's subways, the subject of innumerable horror stories, conjure up hellish images in the minds of out-of-towners. But while many crimes occur in the tangle below ground, the 81-year-old, 24-hour-a-day system faithfully carries about a billion riders a year, three-quarters of the nation's rapid- transit passengers. An average of 38 felonies are committed each day, only 2.6% of the city's total crime...
...cause, but increasing numbers of middle-class parents are sending their sons out of the country. Many Nicaraguans have grown increasingly disenchanted with the Sandinistas over the past few months. Consumer goods remain in short supply, and prices have spiraled upward. The country's economic straits are "hellish," says President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Yet the number who are angry enough to support the contras continues to be small, perhaps because the rebels have done such a poor job of defining what they stand for, aside from the overthrow of the Sandinistas...
...exactly 5:42 a.m., just when the coming day seems to hesitate between darkness and dawn. Suddenly a torrent of fire from an exploding gas tank surged more than 300 ft. into the sky over the Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixhuatepec, splashing it with hellish waves of orange, yellow, red, black. The chill dawn air became searing...